Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-02-23
A Story Of a Pretty Girl.

There was once tailor who had beau
tiful daughter. All the young men from
far and near came to visit her because of
her beauty. Two rivals sought her one
day and said:
sit is on your account that we have come
hither."
"What do you want of me?" she replied,
smiling.
"We love you," returned the two young
men, sand each of US wishes to marry
YOU"
The maiden being well brought up, called
her father, who listened to the two lovers,
| and then said:
sit is late; go home now, but come again
to morrow, and you shall then know which
of yeu may have my daughter.
| At daybreak the next morning the two
young men returned. "Here we are"
they cried to the tailor; remember what
you promised yesterday"
"Wait little" he replied; 81 am going
to town to buy piece of cloth; when l re-
turn home with it you shall learn what l
expect from you.
When the tailor returned from town, be
| called his daughter. and on her appearance,
he said to the young man:
"My children, there are two of you, and
I have but one daughter. To whom shall
l give her? Whom must refuse? Behold
| this piece of cloth; will cut from it two
suits of clothes exactly alike; each one OF
ysu must sew one of them; he who finishes
his task first shall have my daughter"
Each of the rivals took his task ana pre-
daughter and said to her:
ttHnra ic tho thread 10 II rnadv for
the two workers."
The maiden obeyed her father. and TAX
ing the bundle of thread, seated herself
near the young men.
But she was as clever as she was beauti-
| full; though her father did not know which
of the two she loved, nor the young men
themselves, she knew well enough. The
tailor went away, the maiden prepared the
thread, the young men took their needles
and began to sew. To the one she loved
the beauty gave short needlefuls, but to
the other she did not love she gave long
needlefuls. They sewed and sewed, in
eager haste; at ii O'Clock the work was not
half done, but at the young man who had
short needlefuls had completed his task,
while the other had yet much to do.
When the tailor returned, the conqueror
brought to him the completed suit. while
his rival still sat sewing.
'My children" said the father, ~ did
not wish 10 favor one more than another,
that was why divided the cloth into two
equal parts and told you, He who finish-
ed his task first shall have my daughter"
''Did you understand me?"
Father" replied the two young men,
eve understand you, and accepted the test;
what must be, must
The tailor had reasoned thus: "He who
fms hes first will be the most skillful work.
man, and consequently better able to sup
port wife," but he never imagined that
his daughter would give long needlefuls to
man she did not wish to marry. Clever
ness carried the day. and the maiden really
chose her own husba nd.-Bufdlo Erpress
The Republican leaders in the Senate
strsck down Matthews, colered Democrat,
because of his political opinions. The rea-
soning was that if he was allowed to set ar
example to his race the result would be
hultful to Republican interests, and there
fore he was deliberately slaughtered. L
was expected that this would he received
with apathy at the North, but it seems thai
the colered people, without regard to party
have been greatly outraged at this specimen
of Republican tyranny; and as result the
press is full of declarations of independence
by prominent men Of color. Mr.. Ingall
miscalculated the blow, and it's recoil il
vastly worse fer his party than seemed prob
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